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[Samantha Power] - read the info I pulled from Wiki below - gee what a surprise

Ah, Cass Sunstein’s wife who wants to use United Nations troops to enforce a division of the land of Israel. What could possibly go wrong? Gee, we still have Israel-haters in key positions.

Married in the Year of Obama, she was eventually sent to the United Nations, as I recall.

[On June 5, 2013, U.S. president Barack Obama announced her nomination as the new United States Ambassador to the United Nations.]

[Power’s nomination was backed by Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Power

On July 4, 2008, Power married law professor Cass Sunstein, whom she met while working on the Obama campaign.[79] They were married in the Church of Mary Immaculate, Lohar, Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland.[80] On April 24, 2009, she gave birth to their first child, Declan Power Sunstein.[81] On June 1, 2012, she gave birth to their second child, a daughter, Rían Power Sunstein.

Chemi Shalev wrote that individuals have described Power of being pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli, on the basis of statements she made in a 2002 interview with Harry Kreisler.[60] When asked what advice she would give to the president if either the Israelis or Palestinians looked “like they might be moving toward genocide,” Power said that the United States might consider the deployment of a “mammoth protection force” to monitor developments between the Israelis and Palestinians, characterizing it as a regrettable but necessary “imposition of a solution on unwilling parties,” and “the lesser of evils.”[citation needed] She clarified that remark on several occasions, including in an interview with Haaretz correspondent Shmuel Rosner in August 2008.[61]

In July 2014, Power expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict.[62]

In December 2016, she justified the Obama administration’s refusal to veto a resolution against Israeli settlements. Power told the 15-member U.N. Security Council: “Israeli settlement activity in territories occupied in 1967 undermines Israel’s security, harms the viability of a negotiated two-state outcome, and erodes prospects for peace and stability in the region.

Power joined the Obama State Department transition team in late November 2008. She served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Council from January 2009 to February 2013.[3] In April 2012, Obama chose her to chair a newly formed Atrocities Prevention Board. During her tenure, Power’s office focused on such issues as United Nations reform, women’s rights and LGBT rights, religious freedom and religious minorities, refugees, human trafficking, human rights, and democracy, including in the Middle East and North Africa, Sudan, and Myanmar. She is considered to have been a key figure in the Obama administration in persuading the president to intervene militarily in Libya.[4] In 2016, she was listed as the 41st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes